The Setup by Meghan Quinn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’ve fallen victim to a heinous act.

An act so vile, so downright dirty, that I’m not sure as a twenty-year-old man I’ll ever recover. Brace yourself, because what I’m about to tell you might have you gasping in secondhand horror.
Ready? Here it goes . . .

I’ve recently become the pawn of a meddling mom.

Yes . . . A MEDDLING MOM–who’s been trying to set me up all summer.

Now, I understand it’s not a crime for a mother to want her child to fall in love, but when she makes it her relentless MISSION, the heinous act should be classified as a misdemeanor at least.

Of course, my mom, the evil matriarch in the devil’s leggings, made her final stab at finding a girl for me days before I went back to college.

And I hate to admit it, but she saved a doozy for last.

A titan in black skinny jeans.

A boss of nonchalance.

And a girl who would not only turn my life upside down, but do it while juggling a soccer ball, looking effortlessly gorgeous around campus, and is one hundred percent against relationships. Of any sort.

Thanks, Mom.

The Setup

New adult sports romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☹️☺️😍😄
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Indie Mayhem – she is on the woman’s soccer team at Brentwood University. Though she is no virgin, she has been solely focused on her sport and her studies. So, when she is home for the summer, her mother who owns a beauty salon keeps fixing her up, trying to get her to fall in love.

The Hero: Lincoln Castle – he is the star baseball player at Brentwood University. He is tall, muscular and does well with the girls. Though his mom thinks he needs help in that department, so while he is home for the summer, she spends all her time meddling in his life and hooking him up on blind dates.

The Story: It’s the last weekend of summer and both Indie and Lincoln’s mothers have worked out a perfect setup to get their kids together. Each of them tells their kid that they want one last night out at one of those places that serves food and has a whole bunch of arcade games. They meet up and the two women tell Indie and Lincoln that they need to chat about something, so the two of them should go play some of the games. Surprisingly enough, Lincoln and Indie have a good time together. When they find themselves in the same class together when school starts, they end up working together.

Meghan Quinn does sports romance like nobody’s business. I really liked both of the characters in this book, especially because they are both genuine and nice people, even though they are two of the beautiful people on campus. The story was great as well, since both of them want to focus on their sports and neither think they will have time for a relationship of any kind, but they are attracted to each other so they can’t keep their minds off each other.

I love the fact that the two main characters get to know each other as friends before anything happens between them. Though I have to admit I got a little bored during the story and even fell asleep for a while while listening, which I rarely do. I think it was more tiredness and my mood than the story though I can’t be certain.

This audiobook was in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Connor Crais and Kelsey Navarro Foster. Connor Crais is one of my favorite male narrators. He sounds very natural and has a deep, soft, sexy voice, but I have to admit that his voice for female characters bothers me, so he is much better suited to duet narration. Kelsey Navarro Foster also sounds natural, like a voice actor more than a narrator, though there is this kind of whiny quality to her voice I don’t always love.

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